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When Christ arrived at Philippi, the people of the city knew not who he was. He asked his disciples, “Whom say ye that I am?” One disciple, Peter, recognized him and “replied to the question, Thou art Christ the Son of the living God.” (Winslow 124) How could Peter have known this? He certainly did not hear it by word of mouth. The people of the city took all kinds of guesses on who He was but failed to recognize that he was the Christ. Peter was able to recognize it because God revealed it to him. “It was not flesh and blood that had revealed it to him, but God.” (Winslow 124) A preacher named Jonathan Edwards would say this revelation to Peter was from a Divine and Supernatural Light. He explains this light in his sermon as being a conviction or influence sent solely from God the Father.
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